With so many “draft experts”, how does someone like Rod Smith not get drafted?
Shannon Sharpe: The thing you can’t measure is someone’s heart, someone’s desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that’s something you can’t measure. That’s something you can’t measure about Rod Smith. Sometimes all you need is a chance, he got his chance, and there’s no question he’s made the most of it. IGN Sports: What was it about you that helped elevate your game to a level where people talk about you as one of the best tight ends in the game? Shannon Sharpe: I think it was my work ethic. Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn’t go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn’t going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn’t want to work on a farm. I knew I didn’t want to do manual labor the rest of my life. So once I got to college, running and doing all
